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Cassipourea lanceolata

species of plant

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionMar 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ15388894 ↗
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Cassipourea lanceolata is a species of flowering plant in the Rhizophoraceae family. It is a shrub or tree native to Aldabra, the Comoros, and northwestern Madagascar. It grows in humid, subhumid, and dry forests on sandy, ferralitic, and limestone (including tsingy) substrates up to 1000 meters elevation.

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Editorial reviewA sound reference starting point where classification, measurement and the date of the underlying evidence remain visible. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1000—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Cassipourea, lanceolata and species is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Cassipourea lanceolata” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.